'Barbie' Actress America Ferrara Declares "There Are A Lot Of People Who Need Feminism 101" As Ideology Is Exposed As Demonic

America Ferrara as Gloria in Barbie (2023), Warner Bros. Pictures

Actress America Ferrara, who plays a character named Gloria in the blockbuster film Barbie, recently declared that people need Feminism 101 despite it recently being detailed the feminism and its founding are demonic in nature.

America Ferrara as Glorida and Margot Robbie as Stereotypical Barbie in Barbie (2023), Warner Bros. Pictures

In an interview with The New York Times Ferrara discussed her feminist monologue in the Barbie film.

In the film she says, “It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful and so smart, and it kills me that you don’t think you’re good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we’re always doing it wrong.”

She continued, “You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin. You have to have money, but you can’t ask for money because that’s crass. You have to be a boss, but you can’t be mean. You have to lead, but you can’t squash other people’s ideas. You’re supposed to love being a mother, but don’t talk about your kids all the damn time. You have to be a career woman, but also always be looking out for other people.”

America Ferrara as Gloria in Barbie (2023), Warner Bros. Pictures

“You have to answer for men’s bad behavior, which is insane. But if you point that out, you’re accused of complaining,” she charged. “You’re supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you’re supposed to be a part of the sisterhood, but always stand out and always be grateful. But never forget that the system is rigged. So find a way to acknowledge that, but also always be grateful.”

“You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line. It’s too hard, it’s too contradictory, and nobody give you a medal or says thank you. And it turns out, in fact, that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also everything is your fault. I’m just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us. And if all of that is also true for a doll just representing a woman, then I don’t even know,” Ferrara concluded the monologue.

Ferrara was asked about the criticism the monologue received, “What are your thoughts on the discourse that some people believe Gloria’s speech oversimplifies feminism?”

She responded, “We can know things and still need to hear them out loud. It can still be a cathartic. There are a lot of people who need Feminism 101, whole generations of girls who are just coming up now and who don’t have words for the culture that they’re being raised in.”

“Also, boys and men who may have never spent any time thinking about feminist theory,” she added.

America Ferrara as Gloria in Barbie (2023), Warner Bros. Pictures

Ferrara continued, “If you are well-versed in feminism, then it might seem like an oversimplification, but there are entire countries that banned this film for a reason.”

“To say that something that is maybe foundational, or, in some people’s view, basic feminism isn’t needed is an oversimplification,” she concluded. “Assuming that everybody is on the same level of knowing and understanding the experience of womanhood is an oversimplification.”

America Ferrara as Gloria in Barbie (2023), Warner Bros. Pictures

Dr. Carrie Gress, the author of The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us recently discussed the demonic roots with Pints with Aquinas host Matt Fradd.

Gress detailed that feminist icon Elizabeth Cady Stanton “is in New York at this time when the Second Great Awakening is going on, and there’s all these seances and mediums happening kind of all of over. There’s this new way in which the women, in particular, are communicating with the spirts and its through this knocking on these particular tables. And so they’re called spirit tables because that’s where they would operate. They would conjure up the spirits and the spirits would give them answers.”

In an interview on Integrated with Angela Erickson, Gress also detailed, “Percy Shelley, who’s the mind behind feminism, he was hugely into the occult. He actually spent the night in a tomb so that he could conjure up the devil. … He was also interested in this idea of how to rewrite Genesis 3. How do you remake Eve not into a fallen women, but how do you recreate her into this image of a woman who was given an opportunity by the serpent. And that’s what he did.”

“And that’s the idea that also got picked up by Madame Blavatsky who started theosophy. … And at the heart of it was this idea of the kind of knowledge that Eve received from the serpent.”

“So who picks this up, but Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was very much into spiritualism and saw spiritualism as this great opportunity for women. Because what did it do? It got rid of men in religion. You no longer needed a priest, all you needed was a bunch of women sitting around a spirit table and getting the knocking back. Through seances the spirits would speak to you and that’s how you got answers for everything,” Gress explained.

In an article in the National Catholic Register, Gress also shared, “Feminism’s core beliefs were first articulated by English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). While his wife, Mary Shelley, was writing Frankenstein, Percy Shelley was conjuring up his own creature — the first woman, whom he called Cythna, to be detached from husband or children entirely. Cythna’s only relationship, not accidentally, was with the devil.”

She added, “Shelley himself practiced the dark arts, going so far as to spend a night in a tomb to make contact with the devil. He also offered a new version of the book of Genesis and the fall of man.”

“In Shelley’s reimagined reading of it, based on Milton’s Paradise Lost, Eve is no longer the means of the fall, but through the serpent is given an opportunity for a special kind of knowledge,” Gress explained.